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Which individuals were directly responsible for innovations or inventions that helped promote Industrialization in United States?

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Eli Whitney

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The United States followed its own path to industrialization, spurred by innovations “borrowed” from Britain as well as by homegrown inventors like Eli Whitney. Whitney’s 1793 invention of the cotton gin revolutionized the nation’s cotton industry (and strengthened the hold of slavery over the cotton-producing South).

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